]]>Before Alan Dershowitz met Claus von Bülow and Gerald Shargel held a spot on Irv Gotti’s speed dial, there was Jerry Giesler, attorney to the rich and famous—defending such celebrity clients as Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin, and Marilyn Monroe.

The article below is a small peek into Giesler’s famous career and covers the tale of his relationship with the man once known as one of the “six most dangerous gangsters in the United States.” Notorious mobster: Bugsy Siegel.